"Love is a rare and valuable thing, and you don't get to choose its object. You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things-and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there."

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Source : Elif Batuman (2011). “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them”, p.79, Granta Books

Elif Batuman

#Love Is Quotes #Littles Quotes #Way Quotes

“I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.”

Source : Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.73, Schocken
“Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.”

Source : Sarah Churchwell (2005). “The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe”, p.102, Macmillan
“The key to real and lasting change lies somewhere between what you know and what you do. It's what you think.”
“What is a roofless cathedral to a well-built pie?”
“No one thought of anything but themselves. My happiness, my future was the only thing you heard. Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another, and that's what people today are incapable of”

Source : John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.20, Macmillan
“You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a crop in the field.”
“The games haven't even started yet and already there are people complaining about the horrible accommodations at the Sochi Olympic village. Toilets don't flush. The faucets spew discolored water. They say it's like being on a Royal Caribbean cruise.”
“We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.”

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